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• • May 19, 2016 at 6:53 pm #85046
    Michael

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    I am placing text from MS Word comprising list of “entries”. Each entry is four or five lines. The top line has name on the left and a phone number right aligned. There are thousands of entries. When I place this text the phone number is not right aligned. Does anyone know how I can get this phone number to be placed on the right in InDesign?

  • May 19, 2016 at 7:29 pm #85047
    Gert Verrept

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    If the phone number has a fixed format, cannot you try to do a grep search for the number and precede the result with a “tab”?

  • May 19, 2016 at 8:38 pm #85050
    Ari Singer

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    I believe there’s a standard tab character between the name and the phone number, but in MS Word the ‘tab stop’ was set up on the ruler to be right aligned. But when it’s imported to InDesign, it regards it as a standard tab character and treats at such. So the solution would be to use GREP to find any tab character that precedes a phone number, and replace it with a right-aligned tab.

    P.S. I don’t know what the format of your telephone numbers are and therefore the GREP expression cannot be too specific, so I assume that you don’t have any other lines that contains a tab with a digit following it. If you do, then this will change that tabs as well, which you probably do not want. Unless of course you tell me the format of your telephone numbers, and I can write a more specific expression.

    Following are the GREP FInd/Change settings:

    Find What: (?=\d)
    Change To: ~y

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